| superchunk said: I think Sony's upgrade from 4GB to 8GB is the reason we didn't see a box yesterday. Now, MS may be doing the same thing... So they could scrap the eSRAM design and go with full GDDR5. |
No they can't. Impossible. Written with authority.
You people should really learn something about hardware design before making such ridiculous statements like "let's just swap ddr for gddr and we are equal". Addressing memory requires memory controllers inside gpu and cpu. ddr requires memory controllers designed for ddr ram, gddr requires memory controllers designed for gddr memory. It is as simple as that. IF MS switched from ddr to gddr. they would have to redesign both front ends of their gpu and cpu. We are talking about $20mio upfront. And at least two months of delay. Not going to happen.
If they want to refetch bragging rights, they can add another dimm and go for 16G ddr memory. I doubt this would result in more than a marginal performance improvement.
